Lois Beebe Hayna papers [manuscript]

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Lois Beebe Hayna papers [manuscript]

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The collection includes 10 ring binders containing Hayna's poetry, fiction and non-fiction, personal essays, and a play written just after college. A feminist theme runs through her works, and her later poems discuss aging. There are indexes containing the table of contents for the ring binders. The collection also contains correspondence, including letters received from Waverley Root, plus acceptance and rejection letters for her submissions, letters informing her of awards, as well as letters of recommendation written on her behalf for the 1990 Governor's Award. The collection also includes serials and newsletters containing her work, published books of her poetry, clippings, photographs, and promotions for poetry events she attended. Two profiles written by her about her writing life are also included.

10 ring binders, 3 cartons.

Regis University

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Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities

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Hayna, Lois Beebe

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Lois Beebe Hayna was born in Vesper, WI in 1913. She attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison on a scholarship, but left a year before graduation due to the Depression. One of her teachers was S.I. Hayakawa. After college she married and lived in the South until moving to Denver, CO after a divorce. She raised her three children, supporting herself by working as a map librarian for a geology company. In the 1970s Hayna returned to writing poetry by getting up early before she went to work...

Kooser, Ted

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Ted Kooser, born in Ames, Iowa in 1939, earned a BS from Iowa State University and an MA from the University of Nebraska. He is currently the Presidential Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He has published 12 collections of poetry, and served as the United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. As Poet Laureate, he established "American Life in Poetry," which "provides newspapers and online publications with a f...